BANDON RECORDER.
A ChlnM« Stratagem.
Rajab Suran. who was oue of the
• idlest rulers of India, overrau »lie
entire - mi with the exception of Chi
na, killed Innumerable sultans with his
own hand aud married all their daugh
ters. It is said that when the Chinese
heard of his triumphant progress and
learned that he had reached their
frontier they became much alarmed.
The emperor called a council of his
generals and mandarins, and upon the
advice of a crnfty old mandarin the
following strategem was carried out:
A large ship was loaded with rusty
nails, trees were planted on the deck,
the vessel was manned by a numerous
crew of old men and dispatched to the
rajah's capital. When It arrived—the
most wonderful part of tjie story Is
that It did arrive—the rajah sent an
officer to ask how long It had taken the
vessel to make the trip from China.
The Chinamen answered that they had
all lieen young men when they set sad
and that on tin1 voyage they had plant
e<l the seeds from which the great trees
had grown In corrolxiratlon of their
story they pointed to the rusty nails
which, they said, had been stout Iron
liars as thick as a man's arm when
they started "You can see," they con
eluded, "that Clilua must be a very
long distance away.”
The rajah was so uiueli Impressed
by these plausible arguments that he
concluded lie would not live long
euougli to reach China and abandoned
ills projected Invasion.
; $S,Üt?.SSS Sit Sí Sííiííiií S A
!j| POLLY LARKIN 1:|
jokes at the ex pense of some other
picker. And let me whisper it, there’s
many a flirtation carried on under these
hop bowers. That roilickieg little fel
low, Cupid, who plays havoc with
hearts, seems to take up his abode there,
and the gleeful imp finds a rich harvest
and his pranks do not always end In a
summer's flirtation but in vows that
read “for richer, for poorer and until
death us do part,” etc. The passen
gers on the California Northwestern
Railway have a good view of the pick
ers at their work, for the road runs
through the land of hops for many a
mile. Everybody picks hops -the sick
and the well, the old and the young, ax
well ax many of the real native sons
and daughters of this section of the
country, the Indians. No, Polly, the
fall of the year is the time to visit the
counrty, and people are beginning to
realize that more fully every year.
NATURAL HISTORY.
The pouch of a pelican Is large
enough to coutaln seven quarts of wa
ter.
For mountain climbing camels are
very Inefficient and seldom used in
Abyssinia and other mountainous coun
tries.
Sparrows begin housekeeping very
expeditiously. A pair of them will
build a nest and furnish It with an egg
inside of 21 hours from the time when
the site was selected.
The female red grouse Is said to vary
Its dress according to surroundings. It
is a fact worth remembering that the
red grouse occurs in no other part of
the world but the British Isles.
No one Ims lieen able to give a satis
factory reason for the formation adopt
ed by the wild duck or mallard in
flight. The birds arrange themselves
in two converging Hues, like a huge V,
tlie leader occupying the point.
The ostrich is a descendant of a
genus of bird which in prehistoric times
attained an enormous size. In the al
luvial deposits of Madagascar evidence
has recently been found to show that
ostriches 14 nnd 15 feet In height once
lived on the Island.
The summer vacation has passed
only too quickly for the most of our
summer sojourners, and with sighs and
regrets they have folded their tents,
broken camp, and wended their way
home from the ever attractive and al
luring country. Others not fond of
camp life have deserted the little cot
tages they had been occupying for a
season, or left the hotels of the different
summer resorts where they had thrown
dull care away and done nothing but
enjoy themselves for the few weeks of
respite which they had allowed them
selves, and like swallows have taken
flight back to their winter quarters.
But if you think tlie country is deserted
you are mistaken. I took a trip over The trustees of the schools of San
the California Northwestern Railway Francisco have taken a new departure
recently and the cars were crowded and have added a class for deaf mutes
with people who were on pleasure bent. in the Harrixon-street school with Mrs.
Some were bound for the many differ J. B. Holden as teacher. Fifteen chil
ent springs that are such a “drawing dren who have had the seal of silence
Stevenson’« Cup of Mlaery.
card” for ailing people as well as for placed on their lips from infancy were
It. L. Stevenson, writing In 1893 to
the strong and well. Some were loaded enrolled. Most of them were very George
Meredith. In an epistle quoted
down with paraphernalia for camping. young and had never received instruc in a new edition of bis "Letters,” says,
All seemed light-hearted and happy, tion of any kind. The first act of Mrs. with heart touching pathos:
and gray-lieaded men and women re Holden was to make them feel per
"For 14 years 1 have not bad a day's
minded Polly of a lot of school-children fectly at home, and then the work of real health. I have wakened sick and
oft* for a vacation in the country. One teaching them to read by the lips was gone to bed weary, and 1 have done my
group of men, who will never see this begun. The first word was one that work unflinchingly. I have written In
side of fifty years again, amused me by nearly every child learns to lisp in baby bed and written out of It, written in
written in sickness, writ
tlie length of their fishing varus. “Best fashion: first, “mama,” then came hemorrhages,
ten torn by coughing, written when my
GettliiK Personal.
fishing
I
ever
had
was
in
Blue
Lake,
”
“
papa
”
and
“
baby,
”
and
finally
a
head swam for weakness, and for so
The favorite Scottish method of deal
ing with sleepers In church was pub said one, enthusiastically. “He wax whole sentence, “I love my mama.” It long. It seems to me, I have won my
licly to (jgnouuce the delinquents. The the biggest and gamiest fellow I ever is slow work at first. Mrs. Holden wager and recovered my glove. I am
struck. 1 played him two and a half states that it is possible to teach a child better now-have been, rightly speak
Clirlsi^^Aemler tells this story:
Wh>^^& Rev. Walter Dunlap, mln solid hours before 1 landed him. I the use of two hundred and fifty words ing. since first I came to the Pacific—
later of a-Utilted Presbyterian church forget how much he weighed, but he during the first year, and after that it and still few are the days when I am
In Dumfries, saw a member of his flock was about from three to four feet in is plain sailing. In three or four years not In some physical distress. And the
nodding while he was preaching, lie length. He was a beauty, all right.” a child who isa deaf mute has advanced battle goes on-ill or well Is a trifle so
that it goes I was made for a contest,
stopped suddenly and said:
“Cut oil' the head and tail of that yarn,
"I doot some o' ye line taen owcr Jim, and 1 will believe it,” said one of far enough in its studies to take its and the powers have so willed that my
place in the fourth grade in the regular battlefield should be this dingy. Inglori
tnony whey porridge the day. Sit up.
the gray-haired trio. “1 never fished grammar school classes. It is expected ous one of the bed and the physic bot
or I'll name ye oot!"
Another Caledonian preaeber, on like in Blue Lake, but 1 have trailed my that within a few weeks at least thirty tle. At least. I have not failed, but I
provocation, cried out, "Hold up yer line many a time in Clear Lake and of these afflicted little children will be would have preferred a place of trum
¡leads, my friends, and mind that Del have caught lots of fish, but never one enrolled. A new world will dawn on pet Ings and the open air over my
tlier saints nor sinners are sleeping in ax large as that Blue Lake pickeral of these mute little folks when they begin head."
the next world.”
yours.” “Don't know anything about to read and understand the language
Goinic to CanoBRa.
Then, finding that tills general ex your lake fishing,” said a third mem
The saying “going to Canossa” refers
interpreted
to
them
by
the
lips
of
Mrs.
hortation was Insufficient to deter a
to the humiliating pilgrimage made
certain well known member of the ber of the party, but you can’t tell me Holden. Usually they are quick to by lh< Emperor Henry IV to Italy In
church from getting Ills night's rest anything about brook trout, for I’ve learn and retain the knowledge they re the year 1077. Henry had objected to
forward, the reverend gentleman turn fished more or less in all the streams ceive as well, if not better, than their the claims advanced by Gregory Hilde
along the California Northwestern more fortunate brothersand sisters who brand and. refusing to submit, was ex
ed toward the offender and said:
"Janies Stewart, this Is the second Railway, ft looked pretty dubious for have been blessed with all their senses. communicated by that pontiff. The
time I have stopped to waken ye. If 1 trout fishers a few years back, for all It is well, for to Polly’s mind there eti.'peror at first laughed at tlie sen
need to stop a third time, I’ll expose ye the finny beauties had been just about should lie some compensation in one tence. but look a more serious view
by name to the whole congregation.”
fished out. Realizing the situation and way or another for these silent little when lie found himself deserted even
by Ills personal attendants and resolved
the disappointment of anglers when ones
Hawk and Partridge.
on
a Journey to Italy to make bls peace
they
made
the
long
jaunt
for
nothing,
In "Reminiscences of a Falconer”
Major Fisher describes the tactics of a except the satisfaction they got out of The above reminds me of a man who with the pope. The hitter was then at
partridge when pursued by a tame a never ceasing supply of pure fresh air said in all seriousness, “In the twenty the Castle of Canossa, a fortress of the
Countess Mathilda and situated In the
falcon.
and the beauty of the picturesque scen years of our married life my wife has
The falcon was descending upon the ery, the California Northwestern Rail never uttered a cross or an impatient mountains of Modena. Thither the em
partridge when the partridge stopped way Company at the suggestion of word, but she has frequently turned a peror hastened, but the pope refused
io see him save under the most degrad
short and fell to the ground as If dead.
He seemed to be lost in the short stub President A. W. Foster, built the fish deaf ear to me.” “No wonder, she’s a ing conditions.
Tlie desperate situation of Henry
ble of tlie Held. He was far too know hatchery near Ukiah with a station at deaf mute,” whispered my friend.
compelled him to submit, and for three
ing to trust himself again on the wing, Willits where they gather the spawn
flays and ulgbts, barefooted and bare
and the hawk bad no alternative but every season. I can’t begin to tell you
BRIEF REVIEW.
headed. clad only in a hair shirt, the
to take him on the ground, which he of the thousands and thousands of little
raiment of a penitent, he waited at the
speedily attempted to do.
trout they turn loose in the streams
gate. At the end of this fearful pen
How Biograph Film is Made.
But on the ground the partridge was every year. But for the efforts of this
far more agile than be, running this company the streams would have been
The making of biograph film is an nice, which was undergone lu the
month of January, lie was admitted to
way and that with great speed. The
elaixirate and delicate process, says Roy
hawk would Jump awkwardly up and fished out long ago. Every angler in McArdle in Everybody's Magazine. the papal presence, was absolved and
dart nfter the scudding partridge, who the State should take off his hat to the First is manufacured a celluloid ribbon received Ids dominion as a gift from
the pope. The expression lias ever
Just at the right moment Jumped from Northwestern Railway Company.”
of the required width and transparency since been current as Indicative of
the ground and over his back, descend
coated on one sideonly to an invariable abject submission on any terms im
ed on the other side and commenced
“Did I ever tell you of the trick thickness of one-thousandth of an inch. posed liy the conqueror.
running harder than before.
Time after time this was done. At George B-----tried to play ou me last It is sensitized in an immense dark
Tbe>- Were«'! Fed.
every nttempt the partridge met the year? Well, we came up here with a room in an absolutely dust-proof fac
hawk with outstretched neck and rais party of friends and pitched our tent. tory. The emulsion consists of a solu “Some years ago," said a San Fran
ed hackles, in the attitude of a fighting Now I would rather fish than eat, any tion of bichloride of gold floating on cisco man, “a globe trotting English
bantam cock. Jumping up to avoid be day. It is vice versa with George. great glass tables 100 feet in length. man enme Into the city by the Golden
Gate, and It fell to my lot to entertain
ing clutched whenever the hawk struck Sleep and rest is his motto. 1 knew
When dried the film is wound on spools him So one night I took him to dine
at him. In fact. Ills whole action was
he was sort of tricky and I would have in boxes, and no gleam of light must at the far filmed Cliff House. It was
that of a plucky little game bantam.
This went on for some time, until, as to watch him. It seemed to me I wax strike it until, at the proper moment, a beautiful moonlight night, nnd from
I regret to say, I ended the unequal minus some of the trout 1 had caught it is held behind the camera lens for "•here we sat upon the porch we look
strife by putting the partridge once on several occasions, so I concluded to one seventieth part of a second every ed out upon the broad bosom of the
more fairly on the wing, when, of mark my fish. We started off with two inches of its entirety. Even then Pacific ocean. The moon’s light made
course, the hawk readily overtook and our lunch one day bright and early. it must be guardeo from stray lieams a path across the waters, and In Its
captured It, not overmuch to his credit We fished in the same neighborhood all until developed and fixed in the bio •enter the Seal rocks lay like a black
and still less to mine.
The Englishman Inquired what
morning. Several times I found George graph factory. In taking the Sharkey- patch
they were and upon my Informing film
lying flat on his back with his pipe in Jeffries prize-fight a strip of film over <ald: 'Balt Jove, are those the Seal
A Finh nnd Lizard Story.
One afternoon I thought I would go his mouth and pretending to read or seven miles long was used, at a cost of ricks of which 1 have beard? I'd very
down the river and troll. I had on my sleep. Just beforestarting for home we $5000 per mile. On this film were 198,- much like to see the seals. 1 say. my
hook a live minnow nnd in a little liegan to size up our day’s catch. I 000 pictures of the two pugilists pound man,' turning to the waiter, 'caun't I
while had a strike, and I booked my waited until George got through count ing each other for twenty-five rounds. nee the seals? Don't you feed them at
first fish, which seemed to be quite a ing, and then 1 just naturally hauled This was the first moving picture ever night ?’
large one. I reeled him where I could out thirty friers from his pile of the
" 'Oh. yessir.’ replied the waiter, who
see him and found It was a large pike speckled beauties. They had my mark made by artificial illumination, and was of Hibernian descent, without
.'MIO arch lights covered the ring to make blinking an eye. ’At 9 o’clock we al
25 or 30 Inches long. I pulled him up
to my boat, but when I lifted him on them, for every time I caught a fish the record. The cost of lighting alone ways give’s them their ham and eggs,
from the water he was as light as a I took out my scissors and snipped a w as $10,000.
sir.’
feather. I measured him and found be notch out of its tail. ‘You villian,'
"The Englishman accepted this sur
Bolivia’s Wonders to be Revealed.
was Just 30 Indies long and should he cried, ‘how dare you do such a
prising piece of Information without
Eave weighed eight or nine pounds, thing'.” ‘They carry my mark,’ I re The exploration work begun by Sir turning a hair and announced that he
while be only weighed two. He was plied, and when I pointed out the notch Martin V'onway in Bolivia is to lie con would surely be on hand at the time
just skin and bones. I killed him, took in the tail he simply grinned and said, tinued, says a London newspaper, by mentioned. He was; but. needless to
my knife and cut him open nnd found ‘You think you are smart, don’t youf ”
say. the waiter was not.”
a live lizard, five inches long. In his “Hopland,” called the brakeman. an expedition which sailed recently
from the Isthmus of Panama. The re
stomach. The reptile was as black as
Knocked Iler Oat With a Look.
coal and very lively, living 24 hours “Guess we ‘hop’ off here.” And the gion to be explored lies between the While talking of the many notable
quartet
of
gray-haired
men,
who
would
crest of the Andes and the great Ama people he met during Ills pugilistic ca
after I took him from bis prison.—
always tie boys for a’ that, took their zonian plain aud between the rivers reer John L. Sullivan said oue day in
Field and Stream.
departure.
Kaka and Beni and the river Pando, or New York: “Once when 1 was in Syd
Crushing n Lawyer.
Tamtxipata, an ai ea of over 10,000 square ney 1 had a suit of rooms directly over
De Wolfe Hopper was once a witness
“Well,” said a little lady, bound for miles. The expedition is equipped and Sarah Bernhardt. 1 never met the
In a suit for slander, and the opposing the springs, “I’ve lieen over this road
sent out by Sir Martin Conway. Its lady, and 1 didn't much care. She was
counsel In the courtroom said:
every summer for several years past leader is John W. Evans. With him jabbering French all the time and was
"You are nn actor. I believe?”
and I never tire of it. It is all so pic go John Turle, assistant geologist, and rehearsing constantly In her room. 1
"Yes,” replied Hopper.
turesque and lovely. I never take the Gerard A. Watney, B. A., surveyor. heard so much of it that I pretty nenr
“Is not that a low calling?”
the willies One night I happened
midsummer
for my vacation either, for They will be joined by an experienced had
“1 don't know, but It’s so ntueb better
to follow Sarah Into her majesty’s thea
than my father’s that I am rather I find the Indiun summer or fall season botanist from the United States and by ter In Sydney, aud 1 had a good chance
proud of It.”
far more delightful. So many people a zoologist already in the couutry.
to size her up. She was a feather
"What was your father's calling, umy rush madly off the beginning of sum
weight all right, uud there was so much
I ask?”
mer, and of course it is beautiful then,
powder on her face that I thought she’d
Bomb to Locate Enemy’s Position.
“He was a lawyer,” said Hopper.
but they miss the autumn season with
’The War Department is now firing made a mistake. She got a look at me.
Coli-rlda«’« Clan.lflcatlon of Reader«. its golden-rod and fall flowers, the an illuminating shell that bursts In the and because I had been so much annoy
Coleridge says: "Readers may be di changing of the green and russet leaves air and emits a fiery body of a globular ed with her Jablterlng I scowled at her
vided into four clnsses—first, sponges, into the scarlet and golden tints; the sh»|>e which vividly lights up a large gave her the look that used to scare
the dubs who tried to stay four rounds
who absorb all they read and return It veiling of the trees with the delicate
early in the same state, only a little smokevine that spins itself lovingly over area for a considerable time. The ex with me. Well, sir, Sarah gave one
dirty; second, sand glasses, who retain the branches like some beautiful bridal periments are for the purpose of im long, mournful howl and fainted away.
proving and perfecting bombs that an* After Hint she didn’t Jabber any more,
nothing and are content to get through
a book for the sake of getting through vail. It is ax dainty and hwy ax a cobweb. now made for the purpose of exposing for she'd found out who was living up
the time; third, strain bags, who retain Of course some people cannot lie choos the |s>sition of an enemy at night, and stairs.”
merely the dregs of wliat they rend; ers, for they must come when the chil to reveal the character of defenses to tie
Nnnth America.
fourth, mogul diamonds, equally rare dren have their summer vacation; but attacked. These projectiles explode on Competent authorities assert that
and valuable, who profit by what they to those who can, I say avoid the wild impact, liberatinga flaming compound. South America lias greater undevelop
read and enable others to profit by It rush and |s>st|M>ne your outing until
ed resources than any other portion of
also.”
the fall. Then the mad caprice of the
Chewing the crustof rye bread is con the world Any crop grown elsewhere
wind is past, it stops playing pranks for sidered by German experts one of the can lie duplicated there, nnd the conn
Hail Trouble« of HI« Own.
"Sir," began young Timkins as he a while, the harvest is over, and people liest ways of exercising and preserving try abounds In mines of coal, silver and
gold, most of which have been ouly
entered the presence of the dear girl's are not so busy except with tlie vint the teeth.
slightly developed_________
father, "1 want to marry your daugh age, and in the hoptlelds, canopied for
ter”—
Western Australia was last of the sis It mny surprise some to hear that
acres with its green mantle jeweled
“Oh, don’t bother me with your trou- with millions of graceful little cones, ter colonies to receive the privilege of Florula stniids tenth as n fish produc
ing state. It Ims n const line. Including
iterrupted«the old gentleman, and it never ceases to lie of the greatest responsible government.
Islands, of 3.500 miles. The annual
d me some time ago that she
atcli is about 30,000.000 pounds, with a
to marry you, so you’ll have interest to me to watch the gleeful,
The Chinese iiava superstltihus hor total value to the fishermen of about
to settle It between yourselves.”—Ex- happy-go-lucky hopplckers at their
tTOOisvi
work, singing and picking, cracking ror of being caught in the rain.
cnange.
A sinsle »mile from her rosy mouth,
A 8U»1<1» n (lance from her soft eye« «<?nt,
THE HAIRY AINOS ANO THEIR RESER And he turned, a» tl.e wind veer» north or south
Ami follow ’d whither her light feet went.
VATIONS IN THE EMPIRE.
Did the linger an I look for a moment then!
Did she lift her fact* and «mile again!
Nay, not vol
Odd Custom« Practiced liy These
Tbe heart of a girl, ah, who may know!
Aboriginal
People
of
Japan,
tnlqar
Style«
In
Baby
Nainrs.
Their Resemblance to our Indians.
The Alnus, generally known to Amer
icans aud Europeans as “the hairy
Ainos," are the ouly aboriginal people
now living In Japan. They are called
“hairy” in contradistinction to the
smooth faced Japanese, Koreans aud
Chinese. Their present home Is in Hok
kaido. or Yesso, the most northerly part
of the empire, although It is supposed
that in earlier times they occupied
most of the entire couutry. Ancestors
of the Japanese of today found them iu
possession aud by force of superior
arms and civilization gradually drove
them to tlie north, much in the same
way as the savages were driven back
toward tlie Pacific by tlie early settlers
in America.
The Alnus live today pretty much as
the Indluns on their reservations In the
west. They are still for the most part
half savage, aud the Japanese uame
for them, “Yesso,” means barbarian.
They are very skillful lu bunting and
fishing, which are their chief occupa
tions. They are.under the protection
of tlie Imperial government and are
entirely separated from the Japanese.
The latest census showed that they
number very nearly 17,000.
Among tlie many curious customs of
the Alnus perhaps the quaintest is their
method of naming their children. They
observe a peculiar economy In giving
names. Tlie iul’ant must go without a
name until It shows Itself worthy of
bearing oue. If it Is sickly and not
likely to live. It is uot considered worth
while to waste u name upon It. As
each child must by Immemorial custom
have a brand new name, used by no
one In the community, uames are scarce
and must be guarded. If the child
should be givcu a uame borne by some
one else, the ghost of the former pos
sessor of the uame may come back
from the underworld to avenge the
slight.
It Is customary to take a uame from
some Incldeut that occurred at the
child's birth or It Is left to the parents
afterward to choose one for it. Should
the Infant come into the world with a
smiling face it might lie called Ikishl-
maburu, which means a smile, or fond
parents may call It Kamoissage (a
pulling Type of the gods) If they wish
lheir child to be In the special care of
the gods.
From the age of 7 to 10 Ainu children
of either sex have tlieir heads shaved,
but after 11 they are allowed to have
long hair and wear the same clothes
as grown persons. They wear no cloth
ing unless the weather Is very cold.
The favorite nnd almost exclusive or
nament is the earring, usually made of
metal. What clothing Is worn Is made
of straw. They never wear shoes or
other covering for the feet except as a
great luxury and mark of distinction
on ceremonious occasions.
The men carry small knives and to
bacco pouches, nnd the women carry
small looking glasses ami knives, ’/'lie
knife Is used as symbolic. The maiden
wears it with the blade bare, but when
she marries It is worn in a sheath. The
women also paint their faces, using a
kind of Ink for the purpose.
The Alnus live mostly by fishing and
hunting. They hunt the bear and deer,
catch salmon nnd other fish nnd grow
potatoes and millet. Whenever they
can get It they eat rice, which they re
gard as the best food, though they do
not raise it themselves. Both sexes
smoke tobacco and drink liquor.
The marriage customs differ widely
from those of the Japanese. The ques
tion Is first settled between the youth
and maiden, who then refer the matter
to their parents through a mediator,
who should be a relative of the pro
spective bridegroom The man must
send a present of lacquered ware,
which Is regarded by them as one of
the most precious things In the world.
This, however, Is reclaimed by him if
bls wife afterward seeks a divorce.
Alnus live in dwellings of about the
same class ns those of the American
Indians. The rude hut has two win
dows, one of them for ordinary earthly
uses, the other reserved fpr the en
trance of the gods.
Woman is fairly treated and held In
deep respect. The man Is not allowed
to enter the house when the woman is
In It alone, and be is not permitted to
walk behind n woman. When n man
meets a woman, be must salute first,
by smoothing his beard and rubbing
bis hands. Then she responds by
touching her nose with a finger of bet
left hand.
During October the Alnus bold a re
ligious fete, which Is called the bear
festival, because they sacrifice a bear
which hns been carefully fostered for
three years.
Judicial punishment among tbe Alnus
consists of a severe beating with a
stick administered to tbe culprit. The
crimes are generally theft—stealing ar
ticles or the wife of a neighbor. As
there are eight men to one woman the
majority of the males are not married,
aud wife stealing Is very common. The
accused Is subjected to a long examina
tion by the chief of the community nnd
Is then compelled to resort to tbe ordeal
of tire. He must take a stone out of
boiling water. If Innocent, tbe Alnus
think he will not be Injured. If tbe
question cannot be settled In this way,
tbe principals In the dispute must fight
It out.
The Alnus are polytheists, though
they limit their gods to two, a god of
fire and a god of water. The first Is
called Kabekamol and tbe latter Ilato-
kamol. They, also, like most peoples
who have a religious system, believe In
some sort of heaven aud hell.—Japan
nnd America.
Power Without Heat.
As we watch tbe world famous plunge
of Niagara we are offered an Impres
sive lesson as to tbe small value In
bent of much motive power. In so far
as tbe descent Is perpendicular, so that
the water leaves the foot of the falls
with comparatively little current, the
effect of tlie concussion is simply to
warm tbe water through but one-sixth
of a degree F. To heat the water as
much as one degree tbe falls would
have to be 777 feet In height—George
Iles lu Everybody's Magazine.
GRANT’S RETREAT.
AFTER THE QUARREL
SAVAGES IN JAPAN.
U ¡th every pace of Ids swift pursuit
Her step she quickened nor looked behind.
Eyes were speech!««», and lips were mute;
Never a glance or cold or kind,
As if she cherished nor thought nor car«
Fur the eager footfalls hurrying therel
Was it so?
The heart of s girl, ah, who may know?
Did she love him more when look and smil«
Silently bode him to follow her!
Did she love him less v^ien she wove her wile
His heart to trouble, his hope defer?
Nay, read you thia riddle, at range, but true—
She loved Idin moat when ahe moat withdrew!
Even so!
The heart of a girl, ah, who may know?
— Biauche Trennor Heath in Atlanta Conatitu*
tlon.
CAUGHT IN AN EXPLOSION.
A
Miner’s Description of HI« Feel-
InK« When Hr Wn« Blown L'p.
A miner who was blown up while
blastlug a rock describes his sensations
thus:
“You see, It's so sudden. It’s over
Just about the time you begin to under
stand that something is happening.
You know. 1 had tbe cartridge In my
linnd and put It down. Then 1 got
afraid of It. All at once everything
was, light. 1 don’t think I saw the
Hash. Anyway my face was not ex
actly toward the explosion.
“But then everything got light, lighter
than day—kind of blinding. There was
au awful crash. It was Just at tbe
same time. I was terrified and wanted
to get away. It was Just as If I was
having the ulgbtmare.
Somehow,
though, I knew Just what the matter
was. A man can think faster than he
has any Idea of. I knew that some of
the others were nearer the explosion,
and 1 said to tnyself, ’They’re blown In
bits, that’s certain.’
“Y’ou understand, this was all In a
second—all at once, really. Then it was
exactly the same as If I bad been hit
with a stick. 1 thought It was a big
stick, bigger than any man could swing,
and that it must be worked by ma
chinery. It hit me on the head and all
over. I went sailing Into the air a long,
long way. My ears roared, and tbe wind
blew Into my face. I knew when I
struck tlie ground, for I remember say
ing to myself, ‘Well, I'm done for.’
“I don’t kuow Just when I lost my
right senses or when they came back,
but when they did come back it seemed
queer that I was there still. I thought
I had been thrown somewhere else. 1
could feel fire burning me. It was my
clothes. They were smoking and al
most blazing. I wns bruised all over
and could not hear very well. My
voice sounded as though somebody else
were talking. That’s all I can tell you
about It.”
Making the Blind See.
Success In desperate cases by con
servative treatment is tbe lesson often
repeated and yet never quite sufficient
ly learned by any physician or surgeon.
The Infinite Ingenuity behind the heal
ing processes, tbe never renounced
struggle toward normality. Is «n ever
renewed source of wonder. All that Is
needed to elicit It Is confidence In it,
delay In doing anything radical, watch
fulness to follow up the hints to action
as they begin to show themselves.
We know of a living and happy pa
tient who ten years ago had albuminu
ric retinitis from long existing Bright’s
disease despite what all tbe textbooks
say as to "two years” In such cases.
“Don’t do tbe Irrevocable thing until
forced to do It” Is the warning that
has saved many organs and Ilves.
Above all, never proceed with surgery
(“the despair of medicine”) until physi
ologic and medical methods have been
exhausted.
The Wiener Kllnlscber Wocbenscbrlft
tells of the success of Herr Heller, di
rector of an asylum for the blind. In
educating tbe remnant of visual power
retained by a “blind" child. There was
only perception of light In a narrowed
field left, hut this by education was
made to yield such Indications to the
eager mind that nfter 14 months of en
deavor tbe boy has very useful vision,
can distinguish colors and forms and
even can read.
There are possibly thousands of blind
people who have renounced vision In
stead of cultivating It to a degree that
would render tbe blind types useless. -
American Medicine.
King Edward lias' established a new
decoration, the conspicuous service sli
ver cross, for warrant officers and sub
ordinate officers In the navy.
London’s fire brigade puts out a fire
at an average cost of £40. New York
pays £138 for the same service, and
Cincinnati holds the record with £295
per fire.
The only states in the country In
which no brewers' tax was paid Inst
year Into the federal treasury as a part
of tlie Internal revenue were Missis
sippi and North Carolina.
In France the Interest charge on the
public debt Is $290,000,000 a year, a per
capita of over $5. In the United States
the Interest charge Is less than $30,000,-
000 a year, a per capita of 39 cents.
It Is stated on the authority of a
Chinese tea merchant that the glaze on
the paper coverings of tea chests Is
due to a preparation composed prin
cipally of the refuse of sharks' fins,
tails and skins.
The directors of the Alexander III
museum In St. Petersburg have defied
tbe holy synod In its ban against two
pnintlngs by Repin. One Is a portrnlt
of Count Tolstoi, barefooted. In the
dress of a peasant. The other Is a sym
bolical picture called "Get Thee Behind
Me. Satan.” The exhibition of these
paiutings was prohibited in Moscow,
yet they have lieen bought for a na
tional art gallery.
t»e nt ■ Long Breath.
When chilled by exposure to cold
take a long breath, with tbe mouth
firmly shut Repeat this several times
until you begin to feel the beat return
Ing. It requires only a very short time
to do tills Tlie long breath quickens
the pulse, anti this causes the Idood to
circulate faster. Tbe blood flows Into
all parts of the veins and arteries and
gives out a great deal of heat. It la
stated that a long, deep breath, held as
long as possible, will close tbe pores of
a heated skin, and tbe danger of taking
cold, on stepping outdoors, may be thus
guarded agmusL
The General Went When a Police*
man’« Club Pointed the Way,
Speaking of nightsticks reminds me
of seeing General Graut In his to my
mind greatest hour, the only time he
was ever beaten, and by a policeman.
I told bls son, Fred Grant, of it when
be became a police commissioner iu tbe
nineties, but I do uot think be appre
ciated it. He was not cast lu bls great
father's mold. The occasion 1 refer to
was after the general's second term lu
tbe presidency. He was staying at the
Fifth Avenue hotel, when one morning
the Masonic temple was burned. The
fire line was drawn half way down the
block toward Fifth avenue, but the po
lice were much hampered by tlie crowd
and were out of patience when I, stand
ing by. saw a man In a great ulster
with bead burled deep in tbe collar, a
cigar sticking straight out, coming
down the street from tbe bote). 1
recognized him at sight as General
Grant. Tlie policeman who blocked
Ills way did not. He grabbed him by
the collar, swung him about and, hit
ting him a resounding whack across
the back with ills club, yelled out:
“What’s tbe matter with you? Don’t
you see tbe tire lines? Chase yourself
out of here and be quick about it.”
The general never said a word. He
did not stop to argue the matter. He
had run up against a sentinel and when
stopped went the other way. That was
all. Tbe man had a right to be there;
lie hnd none. I was never so much an
admirer of Grant as since that day. It
was true greatness. A smaller man
would have made a row, stood upon his
dignity and demanded tbe punishment
of the policeman. As for him, there
was probably never so badly frighten
ed a policeman when I told him whom
lie had clubbed. I will warant he did
not sleep for a week, fearing all kinds
of things. No need of it. Grant prob
ably never gave him a thought.—Jacob
Riis in Outlook.
Chalk Wonders.
Few people know what a wonderful
object a bit of chalk is when exam
ined under a microscope. Take your
knife blade and scrape off a little of
tbe loose powder, catch It on a clean
glass slide and place this on the stage
of a good table microscope. Use a
quarter Inch objective lens and Illumi
nate the field with a cone of light from
tbe concave side of the reflector. The
powder will be seen to consist of a
eon fused mass of beautiful tiny shells,
many of them of the most curious
form.
A better way, however, is to rub
down a portion of chalk with an old
toothbrush in a tumbler half filled with
water. If you desire to prepare sev
eral slides, rub on about a teaspoonful
of tbe powder. Sliake the tumbler
briskly, allow the sedlmfyit to settle for
a moment and then carefully pour off
the milky looking water.
Repeat this until the water remains
clear, and you will then have left In
the bottom only perfect shells or large
parts of shells. Take up a small pinch
of this deposit and spread It carefully
over tbe center of a glass slide. Dry
over a lamp and. If you wish to pre
serve the slide for future use, mount It
in Canada balsam, pressing out the
bubbles of air beneath tbe cover glass.
A
Certain
hake and
Bor.
nn
Uncertain
A certain duke, while driving from
the station to tbe park on Ills estate to
Inspect a company of artillery, observ
ed a ragged urchin keeping pace with
the carriage at his side. His grace,
being struck with the cleanliness of
the lad, asked him where be was go
ing. Tbe lad replied:
“To the park to see tbe duke and so
gers.”
The duke, feeling Interested, stopped
bls carriage and opened tbe door to
the lad, saying be could ride to the
park with him.
Tlie delighted lad, being in Ignorance
of whom be was, kept his grace inter
ested will) quaint remarks till tbe park
gntes were reached.
As the carriage entered it was salut
ed by the company and guns, where
upon bis grace said to tbe lad:
“Now, can you show me where the
duke Is?”
Tbe lad eyed his person all over,-
then, looking at tbe duke, replied quite
seriously:
“Well, I dunno, mister, but it's either
you or me!”—Spare Moments.
rstti’o Escort.
Adelina Patti, tbe great singer, on
one of her tours of Europe was due at
Bucharest on a certain date. Owing to
inclement weather, however, mudame
declined to budge from Vienna, and
the poor manager went nearly distract
ed. As storming had not tbe slightest
effect on her serene highness the man
ager set his wits to work. Soon after
ward a telegram arrived from Bucha
rest. stating that a brilliant deputation
of Roumanian nobles, with a torchlight
procession and military band, was to
receive the diva. The message was
banded to Mme. Patti, who was en
chanted. and at once made ready to
Btark On arrival, the band played and
the torches timed, and madame was
put In tbe best of spirits by being es
corted to her hotel by tbe Roumanian
nobles. It Is not known what she would
have said had she heeu told that the
“nobles" were hired from tbe streets
and dressed up for the occasion by a
representative of the manager.
Deserted.
Jamestown. Va„ where tbe English
gained their first foothold In tbe new
world In 1007. was burned In 1670. To
day nobody Ilves there. Little remains
to mark the site except a crumbling
church tower, dilapidated gravestones
nnd remnants of the foundations of a
few houses. —Ladles’ Home Journal.
Canadian Ear«,
In cold countries like Canada tbe
ears are often forced to grow In an un
natural way by tbe custom of forcing
the caps down over tbe skull and mak
ing the ears stick out. It Is only Amer
ican ears which get frostbitten in Can
ada. Tbe ears of tbe natives are In
ured to excessive cold.
Without a Ring.
A wedding without a ring seems In
congruous, hut In Cadiz, Spain, no ring
Is used. After the ceremony the bride
groom moves the flower In bls bride’s
hair from left to right, for In various
parts of Spain to wear a rose above
your right ear Is to proclaim yourself a
wife. Thue the rose takes the place of
the ring.